we found out that the decision had been
made to close this facility the next
phase is going to cut the power you know
we have a lot of pumps a lot of a lot of
systems that are running you know
everything from our lighting to our HVAC
the things as simple as our admissions
counters so we made the decision that it
would be best at this point in time to
shut down and plan for the future and
step
you know it’s a big loss that you know
certainly when we heard the news that we
are closing felt a lot of that loss
myself and you know that was shared by
everybody here
I don’t look forward to losing the
animals that kind of make us what we are
every time we move one out it’s another
you know exhibit that we walk by in the
hallway where we look at it I kind of
remember what used to be there and a lot
of a lot of sadness and emotion involved
with that our curator has been working
diligently to try and make sure that
every animal has a home
we’ve moved I think approximately 200
animals so far
well started with the collection in
Baltimore in looking at our collection
with the collection that’s up there to
kind of match what animals we would want
to transfer to that that facility
sometimes the smaller fishes are hard to
capture you know so a lot of times what
we’re doing is we’re bringing the water
level and the exhibit down pretty low so
that we can corral them you know
Internet’s pretty easily
sometimes when you’re looking at a tank
close to about a thousand gallons and
you’re looking for it you know a two
inch fish in there that’s dark and
matches everything that’s in there it
can be a bit challenging under the ledge
but there is one soon in the craft there
you see it we had started off
acclimating the the octopus to the net
being in the water and you know feeding
it near the net and getting it to kind
of associated food with the net and the
the aquarist went up there and basically
put the net in the in the water the
octopus came over kind of curious and
feeling around gave it a few moments to
kind of get you know up into it and
actually went pretty easily
we load up the truck with the octopus
and you know a number of other fishes
who went up at the Baltimore and
everybody is was ECLA mated into their
quarantine systems and so we really had
no issue with the transport you know it
actually went pretty smoothly from there
I guess if there was an animal that I’ll
miss the most that’s probably the the
alligators
we basically have them inside a PVC tube
so they can’t turn around so you know
that okay the head is wearing into that
direction we can open it this way and
then had the two alligators inside a
wooden crate that within lock and had
air holes and a different things so that
you can get good air flow in the
alligator reformists able to pick them
up and then they were released back in
the wild cave is clear except for a
starfish you know one of the things that
I think is really important is for
people to continue to support aquariums
there is a lot of different things that
happen that you know that need help with
you know not just funding but volunteers
and it’s a neat place to kind of put
your energies and efforts towards and
even though we’re closing it’s you know
it’s been a fantastic experience way to
close this out here
you
made to close this facility the next
phase is going to cut the power you know
we have a lot of pumps a lot of a lot of
systems that are running you know
everything from our lighting to our HVAC
the things as simple as our admissions
counters so we made the decision that it
would be best at this point in time to
shut down and plan for the future and
step
you know it’s a big loss that you know
certainly when we heard the news that we
are closing felt a lot of that loss
myself and you know that was shared by
everybody here
I don’t look forward to losing the
animals that kind of make us what we are
every time we move one out it’s another
you know exhibit that we walk by in the
hallway where we look at it I kind of
remember what used to be there and a lot
of a lot of sadness and emotion involved
with that our curator has been working
diligently to try and make sure that
every animal has a home
we’ve moved I think approximately 200
animals so far
well started with the collection in
Baltimore in looking at our collection
with the collection that’s up there to
kind of match what animals we would want
to transfer to that that facility
sometimes the smaller fishes are hard to
capture you know so a lot of times what
we’re doing is we’re bringing the water
level and the exhibit down pretty low so
that we can corral them you know
Internet’s pretty easily
sometimes when you’re looking at a tank
close to about a thousand gallons and
you’re looking for it you know a two
inch fish in there that’s dark and
matches everything that’s in there it
can be a bit challenging under the ledge
but there is one soon in the craft there
you see it we had started off
acclimating the the octopus to the net
being in the water and you know feeding
it near the net and getting it to kind
of associated food with the net and the
the aquarist went up there and basically
put the net in the in the water the
octopus came over kind of curious and
feeling around gave it a few moments to
kind of get you know up into it and
actually went pretty easily
we load up the truck with the octopus
and you know a number of other fishes
who went up at the Baltimore and
everybody is was ECLA mated into their
quarantine systems and so we really had
no issue with the transport you know it
actually went pretty smoothly from there
I guess if there was an animal that I’ll
miss the most that’s probably the the
alligators
we basically have them inside a PVC tube
so they can’t turn around so you know
that okay the head is wearing into that
direction we can open it this way and
then had the two alligators inside a
wooden crate that within lock and had
air holes and a different things so that
you can get good air flow in the
alligator reformists able to pick them
up and then they were released back in
the wild cave is clear except for a
starfish you know one of the things that
I think is really important is for
people to continue to support aquariums
there is a lot of different things that
happen that you know that need help with
you know not just funding but volunteers
and it’s a neat place to kind of put
your energies and efforts towards and
even though we’re closing it’s you know
it’s been a fantastic experience way to
close this out here
you
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